User talk:Atfyfe

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[edit] Bronze Star

Just curious, did you get the bronze star with valor, or is it the one they give every team chief who deploys? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 214.13.192.185 (talk • contribs).

I wasn't a team chief for the time period the bronze star was awarded for. While my unit did give half the team chiefs bronze stars, they gave only two bronze stars to non-team chiefs. I was one of those. In fact, I was just the driver on the team at the time.

However, it wasn't for valor. The original citation by my team chief was for a number of engagments while my team was in Fallujah, but then somewhere along the award process all but one of the combat actions got exchanged for leadership B.S. I suspect my captain convinced my team chief to make these changes.

So the award was a meritorious bronze star, not a valorous bronze star. It was for one engagment and two leadership things I don't even recall. As for the one engagement, it was an ambush where I and another soldier fought from a very exposed killzone of an ambush until the enemy retreated. While I got a dang bronze star for that someone else ought to have been courtmartialed. The damn CA teams ran away during the ambush. Not just out of the killzone, but just completely left.

- Atfyfe 19:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Shocker!!! Civil Affairs running from a fight. I am currently here in Iraq, and the few times I have even seen CA out in sector, they just had this look of sheer terror on their faces. They never wear their CAPOC patches anymore, because they think that they are being targeted because of their "CA patches". I think that is absurd, because you have to be effective, before you get targeted. CA is alot of things, but it sure isn't effective. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 214.13.192.185 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Your contributions to Wikipedia

I distinctly recall your initial submission to the F.C.S. Schiller article, and have appreciated seeing your edits to Pragmatism. So you're out of the service now? or at least in a position to go about your life again with a greater degree of personal choice? Congratulations indeed! Can't wait to see your many service-buddies get back home. ... Kenosis 01:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC)